Darkfall introduces seven day trial for one dollar

Holla for a dolla? Ill pass. I can always get the devs' moms for that amount.

If free trials start going the way of the "open" betas, yah.... good luck with that.

I see cheap people.

Yes, I'm going to pay a dollar to get a seven day trial to a sub par game that's been widely panned by players and critics alike, when I could get a trial to very literally any triple-A game on the market (well, mostly, anyway) for free, and probably for longer.

What is wrong with these people? I just do not understand it. It's as if they WANT people to look at the game and shake their heads in disgust.

Seven days, huh? I thought you needed a whole month to understand the full glory that is DarkFall. That's what the shitstorm on their forums said after it got a 2/10 from Eurogamer.

Okay, 1 dollar. You've already lost me. I don't want to give out my creditcard to every mmo out there. As soon as you included ANY monetary transaction, you're already cutting out many potential trial players. Make it free or don't bother.

Lame. What is next. I agree with the fourth post from Clockworkk

what a lame concept.

So basically they want you to *PAY THEM* to convince you to pay them some more?!?!?! Who came up with this idea? Is the game so bad they don't have enough confidence in it's ability hook players so they figure they'll charge for the trial and get a little trickle from somewhere?

I am sure the $1 is there for a reasion. Rather it covers the games huge download or if its there to prevent people from using the trial system as a way to make alts to flood the system and give them an advantage or if its simply they to curb people from making alts to find hacks and such to deal with the game.

Darkfall is anything but a crap game. The gameplay is as deep as Eve Onlines game play when it comes to community interaction and the meta game of seigeing and the spy network.

The game may not be my cup of tea but I can see why they wouldn't want to offer up just a complete free trial that people abuse all too often. The amount of abuse people would put on the system and Darkfall's open ended gameplay with FFA pvp doesn't fit well with a free trial system.

I mean what would keep someone from making a alt or even a group of people just to login at the starting cities and killing all the other new players just trying to start out. Since the account would be free in that case there no repercusions ageanst them people and nothing to keep them from just making a new free account to do the same over and over.

Being able to flood the system with a mini army of free alt character rather its pvping, ganking new player, or farming the starter mobs isn't something the game or the players wants to deal with.

Atleast with the $1 tag on it, it goes to support the games development, keeps people from abusing the system and if someone does use the system to create a character to purely hack within the game there CC can be banned from the system.

I don't see a problem with supporting a game you are willing to give a try with a trial. If your too cheap or do not wish to offer up a $1 to try the game then I am sure you had little to no intention of staying with the game from the start.

They are charging a dollar because it’s not like wow, aoc or eq2 where you little to no impact on anyone else’s play experience. In a game like wow or EQ2 the worst you might have are trial player’s spamming the chat channels and that’s it.

In Darkfall there’s full loot and open pvp so the company has to be accountable to its paying customers. If the trials were free it would open the flood gates to hackers and exploiters. Unlike a game like Aion or WOW, a trail system in DF has tremendous potential for abuse. By charging a dollar they weed out the gold farmers and if anyone make a trial account just to hack and exploit they can ban that persons CC card.

So while it’s not a perfect solution it’s probably the best one due to the type of game DF is. I would however like to see the trial extended by an additional week as one just isn’t enough time to really get a feel for the game IMO.

Free trials are a notorious vehicle for gold farmers and spammer to see there wares, I assume this is one way to curb or stop that. Most other free trials won’t let you chat, sell, trade or cap you in some ways, there’s cost you $1

This is a good move and a very smart way to implement a trial in a ffa, full loot setting.

Looking forward to see the new blood.

Darkfall is a fantastic MMO, and I agree for many it's particularly hard to spend £40 on a game they are unsure of playing, but this is what many people in the community have asked for and they have delivered.

Some people can make their mind up in a week where as some will give it a month and actually like the game, I find it pathetic many people are actually saying this is a bad idea when so many people have requested it.

imo it's a bit like Eve, you won't take a week to get into it and many will steer clear after a few days but their are alot of players who will give it a good go for a month or two and find after they've overcome some obstacles niche games like DF and Eve are brilliant in their own right.